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Herb Zoo Card Animals and descriptions
| Animal | Description |
|---|---|
| Aromatic/Transform Damp | skunk, because they are so aromatic |
| Aromatics that open the Orifices | Musk Ox (musk oil is one of these herbs) Bovine (ox or cow) stones are another herb in this category so musk and ox together for a Musk Ox |
| Calm / Anchor/Settle Spirit | Elephant: the herbs are heavy in this category as is an elephant. Elephants are also considered a calm animal |
| Clear Heat / Cool Blood | Artic Fox, an animal from a cool environment, being a carnivore is associated with blood |
| Clear Heat / Drain Fire | walrus live in cold water, this category is amde of cold herbs |
| Clear Heat / Dry dampness | cool cat, cool and cold herbs and cats hate dampness |
| Clear Heat / Relieve Toxicity | Belgua whale, to match teh enormity of toxicity and tehy too live in cold water |
| Dipel wind-damp | sea gull, which live in windy and damp areas |
| Downward Draining / Harsh Expellants | vulture, harsh animal, like the herbs in this category |
| Moist Laxatives | frog, oistening herbs like the skin on a frog |
| Purgatives | snake, snakes are shaped like an interestine, and like a plumber's snake are used to clear the pipes |
| Dry Dampness (diuretics) | pig, the pictures of a damp body type |
| Expel Parasites | anteater, has a long, skinny nose that resembles a worm |
| External Applications | monkey, an animal that scratches his skin a lot; just like you wouldi fyou had sores on your skin |
| Extinguish wind / stop tremores | rhino, armored to stop the wind, an irritable animal (knd of LVery) |
| Hemostatic / stop bleeding | black widow, a blood thirsty spider |
| invigorate blood | road runner, fast running animal like the herb that get your blood moving quicker |
| Nourish Herart and Calm Spirit | deer, like a dear heart, calming animal |
| Regulate Qi | beaver, regulates water and wood, like the herbs that regulate qi |
| Relieve cough and wheezing | puffin, like someone who's coughing and puffing air |
| Relieve Food Stagnation | hippo, any animal that eats that much must have food stagnation |
| Relieve summerheat | penguin, cool weater bird that couldn't take the summer heat |
| Spicy-cool-release exterior - | polar bear, a cool weather animal with a spiky hair cut |
| Spicy-warm-release exterior | porcupine, a spiky animal from a warmer climate |
| Stabilize and bind (astringements) | camel, a camel knows how to gold thing in, like astringent herbs |
| Tonify blood | vampire bat, have an affinity for blood |
| Tonify Qi | Ferret, an animal with non-stop energy |
| Tonify Yang | grizzly bear, the symbol of yang-type strength |
| Tonify Yin | turtle, symbolizes the idea of yin (slow, solid) and some herbs in the category are turtle shells |
| Transform Phlegm Cold | St. Bernard Dog - drooling dog to remind you of all the phlegm, a blue dog for cold phlegm |
| Transform Phlegm Heat | St. Bernar Dog, a drooling dog to remind you of phlegm, RED dog for heat |
| Warm Interior / Expel Cold | Lion, strong animal from the Savannah to match the strong hot herbs |
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